Chapter 52: Autumn Harvest
It seems that in the blink of an eye, the crops in the fields turned yellow and leaves, and the various brigades and squads began to sharpen their sickles to prepare for the autumn harvest, and the school had just a few days after the summer vacation began, and the autumn harvest vacation was released.
Shen Yulin and Shen Yusleeve were not yet old, even if they were in the field, they couldn't do anything, and the team wouldn't give them any work, so they were taken to their own land by Fang Youshun and Grandma Fang, while looking at Shen Yusui, who was already able to crawl around, and Shen Yujun, who was running around all day long, while helping to collect sweet potatoes.
Although they are not very old, the children born and raised in the farm have long been accustomed to the work in the fields, even if they can't do too heavy work, it is still okay to drag the cut sweet potato vines aside and dig the sweet potatoes out of the ground.
In this way, Fang Youshun and Grandma Fang, with two big, two young and four children, were stunned in only two days, and they got all the sweet potatoes in their own land home.
Shen Yusleeve looked at the large pile of large and small sweet potatoes in the barn, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
She didn't know if there had been so much food at home before, but since her grandfather built a new house, the family has not had so much food in stock anyway.
Shouldn't their family's food be enough to eat now?
She was also happy with Fang Youshun and his wife, although the family did not weigh it, they didn't know how many catties of sweet potatoes were collected in this nine-point land, but just looking at the size of the sweet potato pile, it can be estimated that there are almost two thousand catties.
Fang Yan and Shen Jinggui, who came back from work at night, heard the number estimated by Fang Youshun, and they couldn't believe what they heard.
They had heard from their own father (father-in-law) that this thing had a high yield, but they didn't expect it to be like this.
My sky, nine points of earth, two thousand catties up and down? If this is wheat or something, it will almost be enough for their family to eat for a year.
The shock was followed by a surprise, and Shen Jinggui was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
With these sweet potatoes, there are no worries after all, and when Shen Jinggui went to work the next day, he happily told his good brother and team leader about this output.
"Brother, we have to be reliable in our words, okay? Two thousand, what are you fussing? The captain thought he was joking, and didn't take his words to heart.
"If you don't believe it, I can't take you if I want to." Shen Jinggui saw that he didn't believe it, and wanted to explain but felt that it was not interesting, so he didn't bother to say anything, picked up the sickle and went down to the ground to cut the grain.
The reason why he told the team leader the news was that he wanted his brother to plant some sweet potatoes next year, although this thing is not as good as food, but it can fill his stomach, right?
But his good brother is good, but there is a problem, too cautious.
If you tell him well, he doesn't believe him, and if you ignore him, he will be suspicious and ask him.
Sure enough, not long after Shen Jinggui left, the team leader muttered in his heart.
Brother for many years, he still knows Shen Jinggui, if this person really wants to fool people, he must be trying his best to make people believe, and now he doesn't even want to explain, is this true?
"Hey, it's really more than 2,000 catties?" The team leader thought for a while, and then ran behind Shen Jinggui's ass and asked.
"Fake, what should you do, don't delay my work." Shen Jinggui didn't even look back, bent over and continued to cut the grain.
He is a man who earns a full job, and if he does less work, he will get less food, so that he will not waste time arguing with him for the established facts.
"Hey, you ......" The team leader saw that he was almost having an afterimage of wielding the scythe, and he couldn't step forward at all, so he frowned angrily, and then turned around and went to the village.
Don't say it, he looks at it himself.
In this way, the team leader rarely did not supervise the team members who were working in the field during the autumn harvest, and ran back to the village directly.
Fang's yard.
Fang Youshun is picking up sweet potatoes one by one in the barn, the big ones, without any bumps, put them aside for next year's seedlings, and put the others on the other side for later use.
Grandma Fang sat in front of a small board at the door of the barn, wielding a kitchen knife to cut the sweet potatoes that were too bumping into slices, and at the same time commanding the three brothers and sisters of Shen Yusleeve from time to time to place these sliced sweet potatoes on the mat spread in the middle of the courtyard to dry.
And Shen Yusui, the only one who didn't have to do anything, sat on the grass mat for a while and watched Grandma cut sweet potatoes for a while, and watched the three brothers and sisters keep going back and forth between Grandma and the mat, with a small head and big eyes, constantly turning around and being busier than everyone else.
As soon as the team leader entered the courtyard, he saw this busy scene, the sweet potato slices drying on the mat in the middle of the yard, the white color, in the sunlight made his eyes hurt.
When Grandma Fang saw him suddenly coming, she immediately stopped the kitchen knife in her hand and asked with a smile, "Hey?" Big nephew? Why do you have time to come over? Is there something wrong? ”
"Ahh The team leader snorted embarrassedly, pretending not to care as he walked inside, and said, "I heard from Jinggui that my aunt's sweet potatoes have received a lot, come and have a look." ”
"What's so beautiful about this, it's not a rare thing, it's worth a special trip." For her son-in-law, a good friend, Grandma Fang still likes it very much, turned around and pointed to the barn behind her and said, "It's all in the barnhouse, your uncle is inside, you can go over." ”
"Hey." The team leader happily agreed, and immediately ran forward, and couldn't help but gasp when he saw the sweet potatoes that had been placed in half of the warehouse.
Damn, did you really collect so much?
The team leader swallowed his saliva when he saw it, the crops have been in and out of the field for many years, and he can roughly estimate how many of them, these sweet potatoes, two thousand catties, is definitely only a lot more.
His good brother really didn't lie, but it's a pity that this thing eats too much heartburn, otherwise with such a high yield, all the sweet potatoes in the team are planted, how can there be such a thing as hunger?
"Uncle, uncle, can this sweet potato leave some seedlings for my family? After the autumn, the grain was divided, and I exchanged the grain. The team leader stammered a little and said to Fang Youshun in the barn.
It's not realistic to plant the team's fields, but it's still okay to plant them in the family's own land to ensure that you have enough to eat.
"Okay, what's not going to work, I'll set aside you as much as you want." Fang Youshun responded with a smile.
Originally, he was worried that there were too many of these things to preserve, and when the time came, the children would be tired of eating again, and someone would be willing to change them, and he would like to do it.
"Hey, then thank you uncle, you are busy first, there are still things in the team, I'll go first!" The team leader ran away happily as he spoke, and even Grandma Fang wanted him to bring a few pieces of sweet potatoes home for the child to eat, but he couldn't catch up.
The team leader is the uninteresting person, now the food of each family is very expensive, and it is already good that people are willing to exchange some sweet potato seedlings for him, how can he take other people's things?
After the team leader left from Fang's house, he told a few good brothers the news, and a few people couldn't take care of going to work when they heard the words, so they turned around and ran to Fang's house to reserve some sweet potatoes, preparing to plant them in their own land next year.
The actions of a few people naturally attracted the attention of others, and after quietly inquiring what was going on, the village suddenly exploded, and people rushed to Fang Youshun's house to see the wonders after work, and when they really saw the real thing, their shocked eyes almost popped out.
God, two thousand catties or so, in a year when each of them has an annual ration of only about 200 catties, this is the ration of more than ten people?
You don't care if you eat too much of this stuff or not, the important thing is that people have these sweet potatoes, so they won't be hungry!!
At this time, those who had been asked by Fang Youshun or Grandma Fang if they wanted to pinch some sweet potato vines to plant, but refused, their intestines were repentant.
Such a good thing, why were they blind and rejected it at that time? This year's harvest is not so good, if they plant sweet potatoes, how can they be afraid of starvation?
(End of chapter)